Bug 135164
| Summary: | piecewise screensaver leaks memory at ~1MB/s | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jon Burgess <jburgess777> |
| Component: | xscreensaver | Assignee: | Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3 | CC: | mattdm |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-10-19 17:12:29 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 131589 | ||
It appears that the only place free() is done is within sweep(), but it isn't freeing all newly allocated memory in each iteration. I will attempt to look into it again this weekend. In the mean time I would suggest disabling this as a default screensaver, or removing it entirely. This is horribly inefficient code even if it were working properly. The same behavior is apparent in FC2's xscreensaver-4.14. Should be fixed in 4.18-4. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041002 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: I noticed that memory usage of my machine had grown considerably when I came back after the screensaver was active. It seems that the piecewise screensaver leaks memory at about 1MB/s Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xscreensaver-4.18-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/piecewise 2. run top 3. Watch memory usage of piecewise process Actual Results: The piecewise process starts at about 5MB, but grows in size each time the top window refreshes. After about 10 seconds the memory usage is up to 15MB. Additional info: